Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...means automatically excluded by the courts. State judges, who are mostly elected, are sometimes subject to strong public pressure to convict in crimes that shock the community. Conversely, the vast majority of criminal defendants plead guilty and waive trial in order to make things easier for themselves. Many prosecutors, anxious to build their conviction records, engage in "bargain justice," the practice of pressuring defendants to plead guilty to reduced charges. Of some 12% who do stand trial, nearly all are convicted; only a handful ever succeed in having tainted evidence excluded...
...convinced that U.S. businessmen, with roughly $10 billion in investments in Latin America, were hungry for more news from the land where their money is. And Saffir, a longtime I.N.S. foreign correspondent, who had brought out the highly profitable New York Standard during the 1963 newspaper strike, was anxious to start another paper...
When he got to Honolulu's Tripler General Hospital, reports U.S. Army Surgeon Robert J. Hoagland in the American Journal of Medical Sciences, he discovered that the military community provided him with more than his share of such exasperating emergencies. Anxious to do something about his desperate patients, Dr. Hoagland suggested that emergency-room physicians try to combat coma with doses of "analeptics"-a class of drugs that includes Benzedrine and Dexedrine, and works by stimulating the central nervous system into a state of hyperwakefulness...
...Anxious to follow the westward flow of industry and begin tapping the booming Chicago market, Jones & Laughlin, the nation's sixth largest steel producer, started looking over possible Midwestern sites last summer. Its conditions: plentiful water, a youthful labor supply in the area, easy rail access and cheap land. With the aid of Fantus Co., the international plant-location experts, they considered half a dozen possible sites, finally settled on Hennepin as the one best meeting the requirements...
Disenchanted Immigrants. Such harsh measures seem likely to cause an exodus of the immigrants, who now constitute more than half the population. Many of them had already become disenchanted with Kuwait because they are denied citizenship and have been increasingly limited in their choice of jobs by a government anxious to protect the 200,000 native (and minority) Kuwaitis. Some immigrants have sent their families back home, moved from houses into apartments and begun saving rather than spending their money. Result: a glut of empty houses, a crimp in the real estate market, and a further reduction in consumer spending...